NIPC Law

"What's in a Name?" By John Massey Wright - Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/8msouv, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40859850   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels) Alyssa Smith Jewellery Ltd v Alisa Goodstone t/a Alyssa Jewellery Desig n [2021] EWHC 1482 (IPEC) (9 June 2021) This was an action for passing off . The claimant is a company that designs, produces and sells jewellery. It is named after its founder and sole director, Ms Alyssa Smith. The defendant is also a jewellery designer.  Her first name is Alisa but she trades as "Alyssa Jewellery Design" (one of "the Defendant's Signs")  As the learned recorder, Amanda Michaels, noted in the first paragraph of her judgment, these proceedings arise out of the defendant's adoption of the trading name 'Alyssa Jewellery Design' for her own jewellery business. Th...

Indian Subcontinent Author US Government Licence Reproduced licensed by the US Government Source Wikipedia Indian Subcontinent Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Asian Business Publications Ltd v British Asian Achievers Awards Ltd and Anothe r [2019] EWHC 1094 (IPEC) (2 May 2019) This was an action for passing off.   The claimant ran an event called the Asian Achievers Awards. The defendants ran a similar event called the British Asian Achievers Awards. These were both charity dinners held in top class West End hotels at which prominent individuals of subcontinental heritage were presented with certificates. The Issues The following issues were identified at the case management conference: "1) Whether the Claimant has acquired goodwill in the UK associated with the name or mark Asian Achievers Awards. 2) Whether the Defendants have (by using and/or threatening to use, the name or mark...